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Prabal Talukdar Prabal Talukdar
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering
IIT Delhi
E-mail: prabal@mech.iitd.ac.in p
Flate plate with unheated
starting length
Using integral solution methods,
the local Nusselt numbers for both
laminar and turbulent flows are
determinedto be determined to be
3
1
4
3
3
1
5 . 0
x
3
1
4
3
) 0 _ for ( x
x
Pr Re 332 . 0
Nu
Nu
=
=
Laminar flow
4 4
x
1
x
1
3
1
8 . 0
) 0 f (
Pr Re 0296 0
Nu
Turbulent flow
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9
1
10
9
x
9
1
10
9
) 0 _ for ( x
x
x
1
Pr Re 0296 . 0
x
1
Nu
Nu
=
=
Turbulent flow
The determination of the average Nusselt number for the heated section
of a plate requires the integration of the local Nusselt number
L x
4
3
h .
x
1 2
h
=
=
Laminar flow
L x
L
1
10
9
h
x
1 5
h
Turbulent flow
The plate is subjected to uniform Heat Flux condition
L x
h .
L
1 4
h
=
=
Turbulent flow
p j
3
1
5 . 0
x x
Pr Re 453 . 0 Nu =
Laminar flow
These relations give values that are 36 percent higher for laminar flow and
3
1
8 . 0
x x
Pr Re 0308 . 0 Nu = Turbulent flow
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4 percent higher for turbulent flow relative to the isothermal plate case.
For Unheated starting length, the same relation used for constant temperature
bo ndar condition can be sed for constant heat fl condition boundary condition can be used for constant heat flux condition
3
1
5 . 0
x x
Pr Re 453 . 0 Nu =
3
1
4
3
) 0 _ for ( x
x
1
Nu
Nu
=
=
3
1
8 . 0
x x
Pr Re 0308 . 0 Nu =
x
1
9
1
10
9
) 0 _ for ( x
x
Nu
Nu
=
=
When heat flux is prescribed, the rate of heat transfer to or from the
plate and the surface temperature at a distance x are determined from
s
q
&
10
x
1
,exceptfor
s
,which
isevaluatedatthesurfacetemperatureT
s
.
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TheaverageNusselt
number for flow across numberforflowacross
cylinderscanbe
expressedcompactlyas
Propertiesneedto
calculateatfilm
temperature p
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